Psalms 103:1-6

1 Praise the LORD, my soul! Praise his holy name, all that is within me.

2 Praise the LORD, my soul, and never forget all the good he has done:

3 He is the one who forgives all your sins, the one who heals all your diseases,

4 the one who rescues your life from the pit, the one who crowns you with mercy and compassion,

5 the one who fills your life with blessings so that you become young again like an eagle.

6 The LORD does what is right and fair for all who are oppressed.

Psalms 103:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 103

\\<>\\. The Targum adds, ``spoken in prophecy,'' as doubtless it was, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Some think it was written by David, after a fit of illness, and his recovery from it, since he speaks of his diseases being healed, and his youth renewed; for which reason the Syriac interpreter suggests it was written in his old age; for he makes the subject of the psalm to be, ``concerning coldness which prevailed upon him in old age;'' but rather he wrote it when his heart was warm with a sense of the love of God, and spiritual blessings of grace flowing from thence; and in it celebrates and sings the benefits of New Testament times; and it is a psalm suitable to be sung by every believer, under a quick sense of divine favours: wherefore the above interpreter better adds, ``also an instruction and thanksgiving by men of God;'' whom the psalmist may very well be thought to personate, even in Gospel times; and much rather than the Jews in captivity, as Kimchi thinks.